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(No Model.)

0. W. HUNT.

CAR TRUCK.

Patented Apr. 18. 1882.

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PATENT OFF-Ion.

ouARLns W. HUNT, on WEST BRIGHTON, NEWXOHK.

CARI-TRUCK.

' srncrmoamon forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,571, dated April 18, 1882.

' I Application iiled January 13,1882. (No model.).

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, CHARLES W. HUNT, 0f West Brighton, in th county of Richmond and State of New York, have invented'an Improvement in Oar-Trucks, of which the following is a specification.

Car-trucks have been made to swing. upon a pivot, so that the axle of each pair of wheels position, ornearly so, to the curved track. The present deviceis especially adapted to coal and freight cars in which a single axle with .a pair of wheels'isplaced underthe' car near each end. I make use of axle-boxes that are connected together and to a link near the middle, so that the'axles can turn into an inclined position to the longitudinal center of the'car and occupy a radial-or nearly radial position in turning curves, and the flanges of the wheels are placed upon the outside edge of the wheel and the rails laid with reference to this that .in running a curve the outer wheel will .run upon the flange and form with the other wheel a conical rolling-surface that will describe the curve of the track.

.In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the truck 'upon a curved track. Fig. 2 is a side view ofthe improvement applied' to a car- Tram'e, in which the side-bearer is above the axle. Fig.3 is a similar view with the side bearer below the axle; and Fig; 4 is a crosssection of the track, showing the Wheels as in a. position for running upon a curved track. Fig. 5 is a section of the car-wheel.

The wheels at a, are upon the axle b, and the flanges are upon the outer edges of the wheels, instead of being upon fheinneredgcs,'as usual, and the rails are of ordinary character, except where the track is curved, at which place the outer rail, 0, is provided with a flat bearingsurface, 3, outside of the top 5 of the rail, as

shownin Fig. 4, in order that the flange at of the outer, wheel may run upon this flat portion and said flange, being of larger diameter than the cylindrical portion of the wheel itself, will travel over the outer andlonger rail of the track while theother wheelrolls over the inner rail of the curved track. 'Thus the two wheels form a conoidal rolling-surface.- 5

I am aware that in turning curves it is usual in city-cars for the outer wheel to run upon plate, 2', upon the character of wheel, so-

the flange; but the centrifugal action brought all the lateral strain upon the edge of the flange.

By my improvement the flange of the wheel that is outside 'the'iuner curved rail together by thebarf, and to this barf one end of the link 9 is hinged, the other end of the link being hinged to the cross-piece h of the car-frame k. When the side bearers, 7.=, of the car-frame are above the journals, as in Fig. 3, the hearings or journal-boxes 6 will be flat upon their upper surfaces and rest against a under side of the. side bearers. The journal-boxes c are kept in position bythe loops or straps l passing below said boxes 0; but there is suflicient distance between the loops and the boxes for the boxesto slide as the shalt assumes a position in line with the radius in turning curves, as seen in Fig. 1. Where the side bearers, k, are'below' the axlesthe journal boxes will be below a spring-bar, s, the ends of which are below the rubber or other springs t, there being bolts to passing through the side bearers, k, and.

through the springs, as-represen-ted...

The wheels are bypret'erence made in the manner represented in larger sizeiu Fig. 5, so

that the treads ot' the wheels will be slightly conical inwardly, although the flange remains on the outer edge of the tread. This form insures the proper running of the wheels'over the straight track and prevents the axiominaining in an inclined position.

I claim as my invention---' The combinatioin'with the pairs of wheels and axles, the former having outside flanges, of the journal-boxes e, such journals in pairs, the frame and bars f, t or s, and the side frames of tially as set forth.

the links g, pivoted to the car,-substan the bars f, connecting respectively, the bearers Signed by me this 29th day of December,'

A. D. 1881. y v G. W. HUNT."

Witnesses:

Gno. T. PINGKNEY, WILLIAM G. More. 

